An African Shooting Trip 



gether, six lions in this region, of which 

 number four came my way. 



The most interesting situation we were 

 placed in at all was with a wounded animal, 

 which our men tried to drive out to us from a 

 patch of brush. Stationed only thirty feet 

 away, on the other side, which meant only 

 one shot in case of a charge, one thought of 

 all the chances. The drive did not succeed, 

 however, in this particular case, and we were 

 finally obliged to go into the brush, where 

 A. D. S. gave the quieting shot. Our men 

 showed the greatest pluck at this time. They 

 crawled in, until they could see the animal, 

 only fifteen feet away, and called to us to fol- 

 low with the rifles, which we were compelled 

 to do, no matter what we thought of it. Such 

 bravery of the natives, as mentioned above, is 

 common among these people, and several in- 

 stances are told of shikaris deliberately grasp- 

 ing a lion by the mane, and pulling him off 

 from a white man whom he was mauling. 



Another story is told of an English officer, 

 who was caught by a wounded elephant. 

 While the frenzied animal was trampling the 

 white man to death, his shikari, armed only 



with a spear, rushed in and prodded the beast 



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